Angelina George

Angelina George was born in 1937, the daughter of the first Aboriginal pastor at the Roper Anglican mission in Southern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. She worked in pastoral station camps as a young woman, spending much time with her relative Ginger Riley Munduwalawala who became the key figure in the Roper River painting movement in the 1990s.

In 1997, George won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award’s general painting prize and was highly commended in 1998. She exhibited extensively, and has been selected in numerous art prizes. Her work is held in collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; and the Laverty and Kerry Stokes Collections. George died in 2015.